Hat-fastener



Patented May 30, "1899.

No. 626,l23.

L WOBMSER HAT FASTENER.

(Appl c man 25 1399 (No Model.)

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

LILLIAN WORMSER, OF TRENTON, NElV JERSEY.

HAT-FAST EN ER.

SPECIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,123, dated May 30, 1899.

Application filed March 25, 1899. Serial No- 710,4l9. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern.-

Be it known that I, LILLIAN WoRMsER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hat-Fasteners, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of an improved construction of hat-fastener which is adapted to be readily secured to a hat and to be held securely upon the head of the user by means of a hair pin or pins, said fastener consisting of a loop composed of upper and lower curved members joined by a bar therebetween, said bar being continued and deflected to form a hook, said hook being deflected oppositely to the curvature of said members.

It further consists of novel details of construction, all as willbe hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a perspective View of a hat-fastener embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 represents, on a reduced scale, a perspective view of the fastener, the same being shown in operative position.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-- sponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a fastener, the same consisting of a body portion which is in the form of a loop, composed of the upper and lower members B and O, which are joined at their extremities by the members D and are further stiffened and braced at their center portions by meansiof the bar E, which passes through the eye F and is soldered or otherwise secured to the member 13 at the point Gr, said bar E being continued upwardly and deflected to form the hook member H, the free end of which extends in an opposite direction to the curvature or concavity of the members 0, the concave surface of which latter is adapted to conform somewhat to the shape of the head or to the hair of the wearer when the parts are assembled, as will be" evident from Fig. 3.

In practice I make the fastener of a single piece of material, commencing with the eye F,

which is continued around to the right, thence upwardly, and thence to the left to form the member B,thence downwardly, as indicated at theleft of Fig. 1, and t-hehce to the right again until the eye F is reached, at which point the left-hand portion of the member 0 is continued through said eye to form the bar E, which latter is continued and bent, as described, to form the hook member H. It will therefore be apparent that a fastener of the character described can be very cheaply constructed in large quantities and can be read ily manufactured from a single piece of material, if desired.

The manner of using the fastener will be apparent from Fig. 3, the hook member H being inserted in the hat of the wearer, whereby the curved body portion, composed of the members B and C, will be in contact with the head of the wearer, thus presenting a considerable surface thereto, so as to resist displacement or lateral movement of the hat.

The hat and the fastener attached thereto are held in position by means of the hair-pin J, which can be passed through the eye F, if desired, or two hair-pins can be employed, the same being passed between the portions of the loop formed between the members B and G on either side of the bar E. If desired, I may solder the bar E to the eye F, whereby the parts can be rendered exceedingly rigid, in which latter case the hair-pins will of course pass through the portions of theloop on either side of said bar.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1; A hat-fastener consisting of a loop having a transverse bar joining the members of said loop intermediate the ends thereof, said bar being continued and deflected, so as to form a hook.

2. A- hat-fastener consisting of a body portion, the same consisting of curved members forming a loop, a bar joining said members intermediate of the ends thereof, said bar being continued to form a hook, the free end of said hook being deflected in adire'ctionopposite to the curvature or concavity of said body portion.

A hat-fastener consisting of a body portion formed of the upper and lower curved members 13 and 0, the latter member having an eye therein intermediate of its length 5 through which the other portion of said memher is passed and continued to form the hook H, said hook having its free end deflected in a direction opposite to the curvature or concavity of said body portion.

LILLIAN \VORMSER.

\Vitnesses:

WILL. COHEN, MANFRED NAAR. 

